[6] Sebastian drew inspiration from a teenage girl who attended one of the Lovin' Spoonful's performances at the Night Owl Cafe, a club in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City at which the band were then holding a residency.

[8] He also remembered: "Zal [Yanovsky] and I just elbowed each other the entire night, because to us, that young girl symbolized the fact that our audience was changing, that maybe they had finally found us.

"[7] Sebastian composed the song the following night,[6][7] and the rest of the band worked with him at the Hotel Albert to finish its arrangement.

Billboard said of the original single release that the "pulsating folk-flavored rhythm number serves as a strong and exciting debut for new group in the Byrds vein.

The video has Aly and AJ performing with acoustic guitars in their loft apartment, cuddling their dog, taking Polaroids and then finger painting.